Chet'la Sebree is working on her first manuscript, which investigates sex, identity, and Sally Hemings --Thomas Jefferson's slave mistress. However, at MacDowell she wrote poems for a collaborative chapbook-in-progress that she's writing with Portland-based poet Shayla Lawson, including a full sonnet crown. The poems investigate the parallels and differences of their names and existences while integrating their shared second language: Italian. Sebree has also received fellowships from the Stadler Center for Poetry, the Vermont Studio Center, and the International Center for Jefferson Studies.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Chet'la Sebree
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Charlottesville, VA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2017
More:
www.chetlasebree.com
Studios
Heyward
Chet'la Sebree worked in the Heyward studio.
The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…